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Why Apple Failed in the 90s

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-ipod dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With news of amazing sales figures for both Mac hardware and the iPod, the future for Apple looks bright. But it wasn't always that way. The 90s were a bad time for the company, and Roughlydrafted.com has a look at Apple's failures of the previous decade." From the article: "During the development of Mac OS X, Apple polished the existing classic Mac OS, and salvaged what it could of Copland developments. Apple modernized its existing Mac APIs into Carbon, which would run software in Mac OS 9, and later allow it to run natively in Mac OS X. Despite fixing the obvious flaws in Apple's operating system offering, Mac OS X did not in itself solve Apple's problem. The company now only had an improved platform that nobody had any reason to buy. The real solution to Apple's problem was stumbled onto by a fortunate accident. "

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  1. Re:I must be blind... by ccarson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You prove my point. Your sarcasm indicates you agree:

    Oh no! I'm shocked!

    All I'm asking is why this has to be? Like I said earlier, I don't really care but why all the negativity?

  2. Re:Marketing style over substance? by MightyYar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's fine by itself - it was part of an overall picture that I was painting. I still think that you have no soul :) If you are familiar with Philadelphia, what about the game pieces all over the city hall annex? The giant clothespin across from city hall. The broken button on Penn's campus. The LOVE sign at the foot of the Ben Franklin Parkway? The fountain behind the LOVE sign or at Logan Circle? The international flags that line the Parkway? For that matter, the "Thinker" replica or the art museum itself. The pointless little "Water Works" park or the lights on Boat House Row. The city would not have the same tourist draw if not for these pieces of public art. People actually come to Philly and then walk around endlessly snapping pictures of this stuff. I'd use New York as an example, but I'm kind of new here and only know about the Statue of Liberty and the big hole in the ground :)

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